bpNichol: A Recollection by Antony Di Nardo It is nearly impossible to put a label on the extensive work of bpNichol, work that consists of lyric poetry, sound poems, screenplays, concrete poems, visual gags, jokes, fiction, depiction, computer poems, drawings, songs, graphic narratives (what he called “nary-a-tiff”), cartoons, linescapes, and just about anything that involved human sounds, textuality and the alphabet. He was, if I were to put a label on him as an artist, a R

From Carolyne Van Der Meer, Author of "Sensorial" and "Heart of Goodness" Antony Di Nardo’s Forget-Sadness-Grass is an ode to the daylily on the surface, and so much more as you peel away the layers. Di Nardo tells us “forget-sadness-grass” is in fact one of the many names for the common daylily in China—as bestowed upon it by the ancient poets of the T’ang Dynasty—but those words, without this daylily association, describe the journey on which Di Nardo takes us: a series of